Re: 2.99.53's smtp

[Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:03:08PM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote:
> Very strange after upgrading to 2.99.53:

	Probably several things in  getaddrinfo() library and friends.
	I made just pure  2.99.54  package for you which has accumulated
	some 350 lines of ChangeLog since 2.99.53.

	You can now create a test-tool for those pesky MX things:
		cd transports/smtp
		make getmxrr-test
		mv getmxrr-test /into/some/path/getmxrr-test

	Then execute it with interesting destination domain.

	The algorithm inside it is exactly the same as what  smtp  uses.
	(But I do believe that I have solved the problem.)

>   4:23pm  up 175 days,  8:04,  7 users,  load average: 1.69, 2.36, 2.72
> 167 processes: 128 sleeping, 3 running, 7 zombie, 29 stopped
> CPU states: 59.4% user, 11.8% system,  0.1% nice, 29.6% idle
> Mem:   95512K av,  91124K used,   4388K free,  41492K shrd,  19420K buff
> Swap: 128484K av,  21800K used, 106684K free                 25524K cached
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 17940 root      11   0  1588 1588   424 R       0 54.4  1.6   3:18 smtp
> [...]
> 
> $ ps 17940
>   PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> 17940  ?  R    3:41 >[] MX-lookup: babbage.mingpaoxpress.com
> $ host babbage.mingpaoxpress.com
> babbage.mingpaoxpress.com has address 205.150.120.3
> babbage.mingpaoxpress.com mail is handled (pri=0) by babbage.mingpaoxpress.com
> babbage.mingpaoxpress.com mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.uunet.ca
> 
> The smtp TA will eventually time out and (incorrectly) use
> the secondary MX. Is this a known problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Ambrose Li                 <acli@mingpaoxpress.com>
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